LANSING - Michigan employers would be barred from hiring or firing an individual based on credit history, appearance, health or the legal activities they engage in outside of work under a legislative package that passed a divided House on Thursday. While proponents of HB 4532 , HB 4887 , HB 4926 and HB 4927 said
LANSING - With the prospect of less money for the coming Michigan government fiscal year than originally projected, groups urged the Legislature on Thursday to reconsider some of the tax exemptions allowed as a way to boost revenue. Officials with the 20 organizations representing human services, local government and education argued that tax loopholes are
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan is conducting a 12-month pilot project that delivers complex and sophisticated market research to small entrepreneurs in Tuscola, Houghton and Keweenaw counties who want to accelerate the growth of their businesses. If successful, SBAM plans to expand the project across Michigan. The SBAM Economic Gardening Pilot Project
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Venture capitalists invested $7.1 billion in 922 deals in the first quarter of 2008, down 8.5 percent from the fourth quarter. Despite the decline, the first quarter was well within recent quarterly investment levels and the fifth highest quarter since 2001. The news came from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the
WASHINGTON DC - A U.S. Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill that would encourage federal, state, and local police to use and create special software designed to nab child pornography swappers on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to send an amended version of the Combating Child Exploitation Act, chiefly
BATTLE CREEK - Michigan Aerospace Corp., an advanced engineering and product company, will build a manufacturing plant in Battle Creek that will make aircraft platforms and homeland security products in partnership with Battle Creek Unlimited. MAC�??s headquarters and research and development activities will remain in Ann Arbor, where academic and business groups have supported the
DETROIT - Business software and services company Compuware Corp. reported a lower quarterly net profit on Thursday compared the same quarter a year earlier, when the Detroit-based company benefited from higher interest income, a tax benefit and the sale of an investment. Compuware said net income for its fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31 was
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center provides ongoing training for growing and starting businesses. Professionals or current small business owners with pertinent expertise teach these trainings. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made, if requested at least two weeks in advance. Descriptions of the May sessions offered, date,
DETROIT ? ConnecTech is a co sponsor of the Midwest Technology Leaders Cocktail Reception on June 4 at the MGM Grand Casino's Ignite Lounge. Join ConnecTech at this annual event and mingle with technology and community leaders, while supporting the exclusive event that will kick off Midwest Technology Leaders 2008. ConnecTech is connecting those who
DETROIT - ConnecTech is co sponsoring the Michigan Technology Leaders annual event June 5 at the MGM Grand Casino - an exclusive gathering of the Great Lakes Region's top IT executives. MTL 2008 will provide all delegates the opportunity to challenge conventional wisdom through engaging in highly-interactive executive sessions with their senior peers. Through a